re: Top 8 coaches in college football now that Jimbo, Malzahn, etc. discussions are

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Spurrier should be #1.

He turned UF into a national power.
He has turned USCe into a top SEC program.
He won a Conf. Championship at Duke.

There is not a coach in the nation who has had a bigger impact on every program he has coached at.

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But for all his greatness he only has a single national championship.

Spurrier is a great coach, one of the greatest in the history of the conference, but no man has ever done less with more quite like Spurrier did in the 1990s. They were the best team in the conference, bar none, from 1990-2000. They routinely dominated the opposition week in and week out. But whenever Florida State came calling at the end of the year, Spurrier would lose to them more often than not.

He was 5-8-1 against the Seminoles and was routinely only the second or third best team in the state of Florida. That shows you just how weak the SEC was throughout the 1990s. You had only two great programs (Florida and Tennessee) and one good program (Alabama).